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*News of the Month*

The Adobe Day preparations are back in full swing as we put together a
great ensemble of speakers and experts. If you are in the Atlanta and / or
attending the STC Annual Summit, do register for this free eventhttp://bit.ly/10264rB on May 5th and spend your Sunday morning listening to:

* Chas Corfield, the inventor of FrameMaker talk about the changing
form of content consumption

* Rahel Baillie ask you if your content is ready for the content economy

* John Daigle tell you how to navigate through the mobile documentation
highway

* Mark Lewis talk about the metrics for the content carpenter

* The panel discussion chaired by Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler, that
presents its take on the future role of a technical writer

Also, based on social feedback we removed all sign-up needs from our
#WriteRight campaign collaterals. You can now access all PDF documentshttp://bit.ly/XU8Avr without filling up the contact form. Look out for the
new and updated list of webinars and videos on the site.

Every product has its frustrations; one commonly associated with Word is
the number of times that you must “drill down” several levels to get to a
desired menu. FrameMaker has approached this challenge in a unique way with
“workspaces,” which present the most commonly used menus associated with
particular tasks.

Users benefit greatly from their ability to customize workspaces by docking
and placing collapsed or expanded menus where they wish to find them. Even
without customization, FrameMaker will gradually reduce the choices
available as you move into highly specific tasks, like editing DITA in the
XML Code View. If you work with contractors or team members who only
occasionally assist with FrameMaker projects, you can greatly reduce the
learning curve by creating customized workspaces with very limited choices.

Quick edits refers to a number of convenient short cuts that will display
choices (e.g. paragraph styles, conditional tags, DITA elements) in a
vertical catalog adjacent to your current insertion point. Mastering this
feature enables you to author complex content even more quickly.

Whether you are a Word user contemplating a move to FrameMaker, or a
veteran FrameMaker users still using an older version, you may benefit
greatly from this session. Join presenter Maxwell Hoffmann, Adobe's Global
Product Evangelist for Tech Comm Suite, who has extensive tech comm
publishing experience, having worked for a variety of publishing vendors
and translation agencies before coming on board with Adobe. He is a former
FrameMaker product marketing manager with Frame Technology (before Adobe
acquired the product), and has trained over 1,200 people in scalable
publishing solutions over the years.

STC New England presents the return of the annual conference for technical
communicators: writers, editors, trainers, and others like us. Please go tohttp://www.stcnewengland.org for details and additional information.

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